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ENG 310 |
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| Course description:
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Editing and publishing will introduce you to copy, layout and design editing for print and Web, the desktop production of print documents from posters to a newsletter, and copyediting as a profession. |
| Objectives: | * To build on competencies in writing, grammar and editing * To engender an eye for the micro and the macro and associated critical perspectives * To integrate the above into a sense of editing as a profession * To apply the above to production of printed materials and websites
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| Textbooks:
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Davis, Steve, and Emilie Davis. Think Like an Editor. 50 Strategies for the Print and Digital World. Boston: Wadsworth/Cengage, 2011. Print. (D&D) Williams, Robin. The Non-Designer's Design Book (3nd ed.). Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press, 2008. Print. (RW) Recommended are: Christian, Darrell, Sally Jacobsen, and David Minthorn, eds. The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law 2011. Boston: Associated Press, 2011. Print. (unofficially the 46th edition) Cohen, Sandee. Visual Quickstart Guide. InDesign CS5. Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press, 2011. Print. A pocket dictionary, preferably Webster's.
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| Assignments: | You will have one test and one final exam covering material in the texts and in lectures. The tests will include items from the AP Stylebook handouts. Lab and take-home assignments will cover the techniques listed above. You will design and print a flier, brochure and newsletter. |
| Professionalism: | Any course in college
includes elements of professional behavior. Just as if you were “on
the job,” I expect you to attend class. Roll will be taken at each
class meeting. For any absence to be excused you must contact me beforehand
and provide documentation of your excuse or have a friend do so if you are
unable. Given normal extenuating circumstances, you will be allowed two unexcused class absences. Further unexcused absences, or excessive excused
absences may lower your final grade. Assignments missed due to excused absences can be made up, but those missed due to unexcused absences cannot. Adjustments to this document are to be allowed for, if not expected. You are responsible for following the University’s and this class’s policies on submission of original work and acknowledgement of direct quotations or paraphrases from others’ writings (see the La Salle University Student Handbook). Plagiarism “consists of passing off the ideas, opinions, facts, words—in short, the intellectual work—of another as your own” (Prentice Hall Handbook for Writers). Plagiarized work may result in a grade of “F” for the paper, or for the course. |
| Grading: |
In other words: A = All major and minor goals achieved; B = All major goals achieved, some minor ones not; C = All major goals achieved, many minor ones not; D = A few major goals achieved but not prepared for further advanced work; F = None of the major goals achieved |